skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with @epc. in the mid to long term, it’s best to drop clients that constantly put pressure on you.

Receiving pressure on a constant basis takes a toll on mental health, and health is our most precious asset. Don’t waste it with people who are not worth it!

Here’s an argument to convince you: your client is not creating the kind of environment where you will produce high quality work or grow much as a professional. He’s creating the kind of environment where you will just ‘get stuff done’, lose your passion and be miserable in the long term.

If you'd like to fix the relationship rather than to break it, my recommendation is to learn negotiation skills. They're very useful for life in general, so it's worth investing time in learning them.

There are reams of books, webs, podcasts, videos, etc. about the art of negotiation so you can start by the type of content that suits you best.

After you learn sufficient negotiation skills, I suggest you use them with your difficult client and see what comes out. Maybe he or she stops being a bully. You know, sometimes people are abusive just because they can get away with it. The moment they see strong pushback or confrontation they typically flee to find the next (poor) victim.

To your examples, I would reply something like:

"I need your help to wrap this up ASAP"
Sure, let me have a look at my to-do list and I'll get back to you with a delivery date ASAP (then, calculate a date that already includes a safety buffer and negotiate with the client)

"I am under a lot of pressure and time constraint"
I understand and I empathise with you, but I also have a lot going on and I don't want to promise you something I can't deliver. Can we please go over the scope and activities together to put realistic timings on them?

Tactics:
- show the other person you're on his/her camp
- explain that it's not reasonable to commit to dates that can't be met. Bonus points if done with confidence.
- expose the risk they're creating by committing to something that is not reasonable
- position the discussion as win / win... you need to review dates for your client's own good (what would his or her boss say after deadlines are not met?)
To piggyback off of your GME point I’d say even less sophisticated. At least they saw the opportunity and understand what they’re doing.

But I enjoyed reading your comment that the comment above and think it’s good to have a healthy discussion about the topic. It’s awesome!
In practice, I've found that kind of use case for polymorphic dispatch to not be especially common — meanwhile, most OO languages strongly encourage making everything objects. There's absolutely a time and place for a good abstract interface, but it's always struck me that classes are overused in general.

That's why I really appreciate the go/rust model, where you can tack interfaces and methods onto structs if you want to, but there's no pressure to do so.
> I listened in on a Clubhouse room today where people were teaching each other how to options trade

oh no.

that's really bad.

Options is one of the really fast ways to lose your shirt. I mean, they are known for that. I expect they were talking about doing it on margin too. :-/
Nice and clean but the lack of syntax highlighting bothered me more than it should have.
What I don't get is that, if this trade (140% short) was really so obviously wrong. Could a wealthy hedge fund not simply have made the same bet as the million strong WSB army, but even more pronounced? Why isn't a Carl Icahn short squeezing these guys if it's so easy and obvious? Simply buying calls and buying stocks and forcing a short squeeze, could a bigger established fund have made this bet?

I think the general answer would be no, because at the end this fund would be a bagholder of $350 stock that's worth about $30, and when trying to get rid of it the price would crash down.

My question then is, how are we somehow thinking that WSB doesn't have the same problem? The only issue is that the bagholders will be retail. It's being played off like some giant win to WSB. When really, those who have closed their positions have won, probably a select few. There's probably a lot more that are bagholders who're yet to feel the pain, which inevitably comes as everyone agrees that outside of the temporary short squeeze, this stock is not worth much more than $30.
The Electrify America app doesn't even show accurate status.
Also picked up by The Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jan/27/lunar-c...
> I mean, cold itself (within Earthly limits) doesn't put out fires

This is not a meaningful phrase when cold is the absence of heat. You need to describe the motion of the cold air against the warmer system to get a meaningful phrase.

Being able to set a river on fire is not terribly unusual for a polluted river. I remember about ten years ago I posted up at the schuylkill, waited for an oily patch, and was able to set it on fire for about 5 seconds. These oily patches are uncommon. I have no clue where the oil came from but with the schuylkill it's anyone's guess. The patch itself is necessary for lighting the river on fire; you can't just set fire to an arbitrary section of river.
I second this exact comparison.

Being able to try and customize jQuery UI components was also what sold me back then. I think simple web-based demos in your docs go a long way in explaining what your product actually feels like to use. Even a demo that's a bit contrived is useful. People will even just mindlessly play with demos. They are very worth doing in my opinion.
That's like saying, "I wish the government was spending money on constructing stuff up the mountain, instead of vanity 'roads' that lead to it".
I don’t know what white genocide is, much less how it relates to anything I wrote. What you think you read probably isn’t what I thought I wrote. I was dryly lamenting the options available to progressives who are uncomfortable with the theory and praxis of the kiddies these days.

My prejudices, if you insist on playing that card, come from listening carefully to exactly the people who demand I shut up and listen. I actually go to great lengths to understand their point of view. Before I judge them.
Fleeing WhatsApp for Better Privacy? Don't Turn to Telegram
Actually I want 0 protections for lies. Whether the truth is in the majority or minority wouldn’t matter. The challenge is how to distinguish lies from truth. For what it’s worth the court system tends to be a place where that actually holds (discovered lies have a penalty). I think something similar could be done in the public square for public personalities as those personalities have an outsized influence on the public. In other words, as a public figure if you make blatantly false statements you open yourself to law suits where you have to demonstrate you had a good faith reason for your statement. This would instantly quash a lot of bullshit that politicians and celebrities spew with minimal downsides.

It’s the same line of reasoning that prevents public figures from suing people who make fun of them - when you’re a public figure you have an outsized responsibility to the public good.
Indeed! I've been trying to figure out if we MUST sacrifice such productivity and K.I.S.S. to get web or web-like features for rank and file CRUD intranet apps. Are the bottlenecks solvable? Related debate:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dotnet/comments/kn20yi/start_with_a...
As usual, while scientists cannot prove a negative, in terms of vaccine causing autism in a subset, all I can say that there is no proposed mechanism, nor evidence of that mechanism, for vaccines to cause autism in anyone.
That isn't how a stop-loss actually works. You aren't guaranteed execution above a particular price.

You could lock in gains using puts, but when you go and price out doing so you'll see exactly how much the market values the risk in the position.
I was indeed referring to market cap, but even acknowledging the sibling comments and going by enterprise value, the situation still appears incredulous for a company that is, as of yet, an emerging car manufacturer, a possible FSD contender, and an energy niche player.
OOP was around long before IDEs were that popular.
But in the case of something like a pension, reducing risk is often the goal, right?
> You get to 1. Hire devs at a big discount since they won't be doing dev work quite yet. 2. Get to work with them for several months before letting them get active on code. 3. Even with the raise post QA period, they would be at a below market rate for junior devs.

You'll pay every penny of the discount by wasting time tutoring them to the level of a real CS grad.
If you follow this in more detail you will see they have already misled the public on their positions several times. But when the choice is between your fund’s bankruptcy and an SEC fine, people do crazy things.
"Poorer" countries than the US like Portugal, France, Japan, UK have far better health outcomes including lower infant mortality, lower chronic diseases, better life expectancy than the US.

The US is the only "developed" country where 10 are uninsured:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_health_in...

Another N% are under insured, or hampered by high deductibles, copays, limits etc.

Whats the point of having a "high median net worth" if the basic needs of the people aren't met?
>Any reason we don't have a more generalised and modular approach to Arm drivers?

Not sure what you mean. For SoC components, the drivers might be provided by the vendor of the ARM SoC. But there still are drivers -- the OS still needs to talk to the SSD (via a driver), USB peripherals (via a class compliant driver and/or custom drivers), and so on. We might not get to install a driver for the GPU, because it's a custom design and the vendor of the machine (eg. Apple for M1) has already taken care of it.

But if we are to install any kind of third party peripheral (sound interfaces, printers, etc) with custom options (not just satisfied with generic class compliant driver) we'll need to install a driver.
It can be the opposite as well. I work in a vet clinic, but I also am in New Zealand- where there is free/subsidized public healthcare. Thus you get people who go to the vet expecting things to be free or cheap.
You might like the Astro Slide, (I have one on order).

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/astro-slide-5g-transforme...
It costs a few pennies to manufacture. The rest is profits for Marc Cuban.
Star Trek: Picard did that with stars recently.
I would assume PDFs don't typically work well with screen readers, which is what a large part of web accessibility is designed for.
And who are they going to sell them too? The people who buy Teslas are Tesla fanbois not generic EV customers. And a car company like Honda cannot generate the kind of hype theater that Tesla can, especially not in the US.

Other car manufacturers cannot replicate Tesla's success because their customers are different and generic EVs are not a good value preposition for most of these customers.
file io should come with the frame format, which is not yet implemented. For the block format it's not really suited.
I use Twitter via Nitter.net and just a few Unix people.

As if doesn't have infinite scroll, is less addicting.
Would you consider listing this preference on your linked-in profile then? It's the same deal as a job ad.
"Don't be snarky."

"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

Please follow those guidelines and all the other site guidelines. Comments like this just tip the ship on its side.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't care to what degree you're online, I asked about social media accounts. If you yourself don't have them, it's weird you'd ask others for them.
According to Ortex it's back under 100% float to loan.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25898822.
Arrest, Seizures Tied to Netwalker Ransomware
As someone who's new to this world of stock trading but now understands what a "short" is, could you elaborate on this?

How is it possible for a stock to be 125% over shorted? What does this mean?
> Edit: This story is breaking my stack metaphor, and a graph metaphor would be too complicated.

Would it be too complicated, or do we lack the tooling to visualize it properly? :). Graphs are good.
>Also spoken as "an eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind"

I've noticed that this proverb only seems to comes up when disadvantaged people (who are already missing a metaphorical eye) strike back at the people who put them in that disadvantaged state to begin with.
The difference is in the NHS everyone is "on the same side", so the amount of bill inflation and money juggling that happens is basically zero.

The NHS does demand management with waiting lists instead. Basically it's amazing for things that can be easily identified and given cheap medication for (insulin, antibiotics etc), amazing for emergencies which can be resolved with surgery, OK (but variable) for obstetrics, does a decent job at screening for common conditions, but tends to leave anything that won't actually kill you to wait.

I've never had to think about billing.
I found it confusing in 1999/2000 when I first autotooled a project and read it for the first time. If others find it confusing, maybe it needs clarifying or changing to make the example clearer.
A growing body of evidence has implicated that a portion of the autism spectrum is probably produced my maternal infection and subsequent immune response during pregnancy. However, this cause of autism is not thought to account for all forms of autism.
At some point it becomes a burden to do it yourself, so you'll be forced to outsource it to a person or company of trust, to follow all the news for you and filter out the important ones, ask around with their contacts, do the fact checking, and give you a digestible overview of what's going on - and then you're basically back at the square one, as you've just re-invented the journalism.
It definitely happens. I've seen some internship/junior interview tests where candidates use javascript's window.open or window.location to link to some fixed destination rather than just using an anchor tag.
The supply and demand imbalance in clinical psychology and psychiatry is why they can choose to be out of network. Demand is not only wanting a good or service but being able to pay for it. Mentally ill people tend to have less or much less money.

The long term trend is not good; why become a psychiatrist when you can earn more as almost any other specialist? (With exception of pediatry). Jails are collectively America's largest mental health service providers. If there was money in psych work you'd see even private equity pump it up like urgent care chains.

Even with single payer or heavily regulated universal insurance schemes there's often a mental health services gap.
Why do you think those in it from the beginning are less greedy than those coming in later?
I always wonder how YAML became so popular for build systems. It’s like having a really, really crappy programming language for config.
Not really. The people who are moving this money are largely not the people with a few hundred bucks to their names. The entire lot of those types don't even move the needle.
User-Perspective System Design
Kennedy Space Center Honors Fallen Heroes of Human Spaceflight
thanks for organizing these lists and keeping HN great.

have you considered open-sourcing parts of HN so the community could create features to automate menial tasks like this?

this could free up your valuable time for other things.
..Me too.
Stop loss is really the wrong term mathematically. In truth, a "stop loss" is really better thought of as a "max price". If you set it up to sell when the prices drops to $320, you are guaranteed that it will sell at a price below $320, not that it will sell at $320.

In truth, you are not even guaranteed to be able to find a buyer.
Personal attacks are not ok on HN, regardless of how wrong another comment is or you feel it is. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.

Your comment would be just fine without the first and last sentences.
What do people even like about Product Hunt?
>. You're less informed about what is going on around you.

https://lite.cnn.io

https://text.npr.org

https://efe.com

I use them thru Lynx and a framebuffer image viewer.

Everything else is bullshit.

I'm probably 90% better informed than half of the mooks
being idiotized at the social media.
I don't think modules or namespaces really count as OOP. And encapsulation can exist in the absence of OOP if the privacy barrier exists at (eg) the module level instead of the class level.

I'd argue that inheritance is really the core of OOP (and by extension methods, which are only different from functions insofar as they interact with inheritance).
I am tired of this misguided narrative that pits retail and r/wsb vs big bad wolf Wall Street hedge funds. This is not David and Goliath. There are hedge funds with deep pockets on both sides. Retail traders do not run sophisticated algos to jam the price 15 minutes from the open because they want to neuter circuit breakers. C’mon guys...
The first time we discovered an exoplanet was in the late 90s orbiting I believe a binary pulsar system.
Nano Can Fight the Virus
> but if for some reason you have a repeat of today, you're out $20K plus

Can you expand on this? Why would they be on the line for $20k+ (or anything) after selling the option?
Just to discuss one point:

> And why are some classes (int, str, float) allowed to be lower case

Also, boolean. These are primitive data types. For instance, in Java there's a difference between int and Integer. I'd assume that Python special-cases these because they are primitive. But I haven't been through the Python internals, so it's only a guess.
That’s what I was wondering. Who is selling Jan 29th calls right now? They can’t all be covered. Is it the DMM?
Hi there!

We made this for people who want to colorize their line art quickly.

Drop in the line art (or try with a sample), provide color hints and let the AI do the rest.

Do have a go and let me know what you think? All comments and feedback are welcome!

Potential discussion points:
1. the good
2. the bad
3. the interesting
4. besides manga characters, what will you use it for?

Thank you!

ps: @Nethyr_UX is doing a review of Autopaint this Friday, 29 Jan 8pm PST on twitch, come on by!
It is CRITICAL TO EVERYONE that we be able to compile Hurd from scratch

Not to be flip, but you can do that on a Macbook Pro as well if you have the skills and know how.
I wonder if the yoke will actually see production. It seems like it would make 3 point turns very difficult.
Largely I agree with the author's sentiment, but I'm not sure I totally agree with some of the alternatives. For example I think using an @lru_cache decorator over a `get_...()` function to return variables is much better at all than using a global var. In fact, it looks hackier if you ask me.

https://leontrolski.github.io/sane-config.html
An unrealized gain (ie, "everyone holding") isn't actually money though.

The sensible people will take their (massive) profits, and those who believe the "as long as everyone holds" rhetoric will be left with losses, probably on margin.
clubhouse?
Yep, that quote is an opinion from one person. "Virus expert" or no, it is still speculation. The fact that said expert is confidently claiming that 75% number makes me doubt his opinion. We can't confidently estimate the proportion of people infected in the US or Europe. I don't know how you'd begin to claim such a thing in Brazil, where the access to testing and data reporting is quite poor.

> for millenia the most-effective method of weather forecasting was constancy: "Tomorrow will be just like today"

I disagree that this like predicting the weather. The weather has consistent seasonal patterns that give you ~90% (brown number) of the story (ironically, this virus is also probably strongly seasonal, but I digress).

Here, we're engaged in speculation that some "new strain" might be worse than the existing strain. It's the opposite of using long-term trends to predict the future. It's a bit like claiming that every new typhoon is going to be the worst one ever, because it's different than the last typhoon in some way.
It does indeed sound like it’s written the wrong way around.

Random information = high entropy. A common word is therefore low entropy.

Here’s a good analogy I found:

> Informally, the amount of information in an email is proportional to the amount of “surprise” its reading causes. For example, if an email is simply a repeat of an earlier email, then it is not informative at all. On the other hand, if say the email reveals the outcome of a cliff-hanger election, then it is highly informative. Similarly, the information in a variable is tied to the amount of surprise that value of the variable causes when revealed. Shannon’s entropy quantifies the amount of information in a variable, thus providing the foundation for a theory around the notion of information.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1405.2061.pdf
Is this data available anywhere?
Why do you call it a pump and dump by novices when it seems to be the opposite that was being done by shorters, they just got caught and now they have to pay, seems like the novices just beat them at their own game. [0]

[0, as posted by colllectorof] https://lbry.tv/@rossmanngroup:a/why-mainstream-media-s-slan...
In the U.S., the majority of people drive to work, so even if you don't have a place to charge at home, you can still fully charge every weekday if your employer has chargers.

Where I live, you see these all over the place:

https://chargingforward.chargepoint.com/story/charging-forwa...

They also usually place them close to the building to reduce the distance they have to wire, so that's a nice side benefit.
The problem is DRY almost always improves readability, at least with well named functions. It reduces comprehensibility, so much of the logic is abstracted away that the bigger picture can't be seen from the inside or outside of the abstraction.
Also the borrow fee for shorts is insane now, like 23%.
Agreed. It seems like everyone is learning the wrong lesson from this.